Legal Opinion
Cahoon v. Shelton
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 22, 2011No. 10-2134PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
We are entering an era in which retirement benefits paid to public employees are subject to heightened scrutiny. In this case, a municipality became convinced that former firefighters and police officers who had retired on disability pensions were collecting a particular benefit (full reimbursement of certain medical expenses) without legal warrant. The municipality acted on this conviction and stopped paying the tab. A group of affected retirees sued to enforce continued payment, alleging that the municipality’s about-face violated state statutes, constituted an ultra…
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